Green and Socially Sustainable City Discourse, White Spatial Epistemology: The Reproduction of Racial Landscape Injustice and Segregation in Swedish Planning

Burcu Yiğit-Turan and Mia Ågren

Planning Theory & Practice, 2024, vol. 25, issue 5, 632-659

Abstract: This article investigates how urban planning mechanisms in Sweden perpetuate racialized green space inequity, despite the dominance of social and environmental sustainability discourses in planning. Using critical race theory and relational approaches to landscape and urban development, the study analyzes multi-scale planning documents and project reports prepared for the Uppsala 2050 Vision (2016-) to identify racial undertones in socio-spatial categorizations and justifications for planning decisions. This study has shown how racialized spatial production is diffused into different segments of planning practice (i.e., theory, conceptualization, methodology, data collection, analysis, problem representation, solutions), relationally materializes landscape inequity, and consequently risks perpetuating segregation.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2024.2449265

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